On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft began a…
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Martian Sand Dunes in Spring
Mars’ northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide…
Sounding Rocket Launches Into Aurora Over Venetie, Alaska
On March 3, 2014, at 6:09 a.m. EST, a NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an…
Source Region for Possible Europa Plumes
This reprojection of the official USGS basemap of Jupiter's moon Europa is centered at the estimated…
Expedition 38 Takes an In-Flight Crew Portrait
Expedition 38 crew members pose for an in-flight crew portrait in the Kibo laboratory of the…
Deploying a Set of CubeSats From the International Space Station
A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after deployment by…
Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory Aboard H-IIA Rocket
A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core…
GPM Launch Seen From the Tanegashima Space Center
A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core…
Ice on the Great Lakes in False Color Infrared
On Feb. 19, 2014 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over…
First Moments of a Solar Flare in Different Wavelengths of Light
On Feb. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST.…